Re: GLOBAL[as]

meling writes: > While helping a developer debugging a code today, > we found that having a line like this: > > $ans = GLOBALS[as] > > will give a parse error (expecting "]"). However, when > the same code is run on PHP 3.0.7 (we have a development > server that has not been upgraded yet - my bad) it worked. > > Is as] a reserved word in PHP 4.0.0? Or a bug. When I tested > the same line on PHP 4.0.2, it worked... > > -- mel > Meling Mudin < meling at myweb.com.my > > System Administrator, TecnoChannel Technologies. > 03-460 9282 ext 222 / 012-663 4327 > "God is real unless declared integer." It's part of the foreach() construct. But anyway, you should always quote string indices in associative arrays--to prevent exactly this sort of thing. For instance, $some_array[default]; will not work: 'default' is a keyword in PHP. However, $some_array['default'] will work, since you've just specified that you want to use a string. If you turn error reporting all the way up when you are developing, you'll have an easier time avoiding this type of problem. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+